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How to pronounce spruce in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms slick up, smarten up, spruce up
Type of groom, neaten


He spruced up for the party.
Type Words
Synonyms dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy
Derivation spruceness
Type Words
Synonyms slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate
Type of embellish, beautify, prettify, fancify
Type Words
Type of coniferous tree, conifer
Has types colorado blue spruce, colorado spruce, eastern spruce, engelmann's spruce, engelmann spruce, norway spruce, brewer's spruce, picea obovata, picea orientalis, picea pungens, picea rubens, picea sitchensis, red spruce, siberian spruce, silver spruce, sitka spruce, spruce pine, weeping spruce, white spruce, yellow spruce, black spruce, oriental spruce, picea abies, picea breweriana, picea engelmannii, picea glauca, picea mariana
Type Words
Type of wood

Examples of spruce

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Additionally, spruce produce toxic resins that could act as a food preservative.
From the guardian.co.uk
Spruce spider mites, unlike the two-spotted spider mite, are a cool-season pest.
From the courier-journal.com
Here are some easy ways to spruce up your space without changing the wall color.
From the newsday.com
Potter said the Fairview tree is smaller than the 40-foot blue spruce that fell.
From the tennessean.com
More than 30,000 LED lights cover a 72-foot Norway spruce that's 40 feet around.
From the cnn.com
Spruce Creek's boys ran away with its first boys district team title since 1989.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Spruce Creek faces a huge task in replacing quarterback Shane Peludat this fall.
From the news-journalonline.com
If you are looking for a way to spruce up the house for spring, check these out.
From the sacbee.com
They get more money to spruce up premises as they must offer a separate counter.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
More examples
  • Dapper: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
  • Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
  • Spruce up: make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"
  • Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
  • Spruce up: dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party"
  • (sprucely) smartly: in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed"
  • (spruceness) neatness: the state of being neat and smart and trim
  • Prussia
  • Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir; The wood of a spruce; to arrange neatly; tidy up; to make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance); to tease; this sense? ...